Cyber Insurance Prices Trending Down After insurance rates soared between 2020 and 2022, prices went down a little bit (15 percent) in 2023 due to increased competition, better vetting on the part of insurance companies and better company cybersecurity practices. It will be interesting to see where this trend goes, but we will take this […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In an example of dozens of known breaches and likely thousands of similar situations which never get reported, security researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered a non-password protected, unsecured (sort of redundant) database containing 38.6 million records belonging to legal support services company Rapid Legal. The information left exposed included court documents, service agreements and payment information […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]CNN published an explosive expose on how Airbnb fails to protect guests from hidden cameras. In a lawsuit brought by a victim whose vacation turned into a nightmare, a women was secretly recorded undressing at an Airbnb property, her images were stored on a computer belonging to an (alleged) sexual predator. The predator is accused […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Speculative Execution Raises its Ugly Head Again Speculative execution is a type of attack that exploits bugs or features in Intel, AMD and Arm processors that try to squeeze that last ounce of juice out of that processor in your computer or phone. This family of attacks has been around for years. A famous one […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Evolve Bank & Trust breach is getting uglier by the day. In fairness, it didn’t start out very pretty. A ransomware gang claimed they hacked the Federal Reserve and wanted millions in ransom. It turns out that they attacked Evolve and did, in fact, steal a bunch of data from them. Evolve had been […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Good news and bad news — After five years and many false starts, it looks like CMMC may happen this fall – MAY HAPPEN. That is good news if you are concerned about national security. But bad news if you will have to comply, likely some time in 2025, with CMMC and get certified. A […]
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